How does one “study” chess?
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ik I made mistakes I'm 600 mistakes means learning, and idk how to play queens Gambit... and I also just put in whatever game I did 😐
Tengen_Uzuui wrote:
Do yall have any ideas I’ve been trying to figure this out.
- playing
- chess courses
- the good ol' book and physical board
- the gool ol' best friend
many more
I never studied chess
How to study? Or how to know what to study? I'm confused.
There are lots of ways to study chess. You can use your own games, set them up on a board and go through the moves. Or use an engine on them, turn off "show best move" and when it says you made a mistake, think it through and try a different move and see if the engine approves or not. There's plenty of chess books you can buy and read. You can watch chess improvement videos on youtube or review games from master players and create lichess.org interactive studies from them.
As for what to study. Identify areas in your game where you think you need work. Are you weak in openings, middlegames, or endgames? If you do a game review, it will tell you your accuracy at each phase of the game. If you are weak at openings, there are basic lessons on chess.com to get you started, and if you find an opening you like, look for a chess book or youtube videos from titled players going over it and memorize the lines and the theory. If you are weak in the middlegame, perhaps study tactics and positional play. Chess puzzles are good for pattern recognition and will eventually help you improve - along with books and youtube. Same deal with end games - the late Daniel Naroditsky has a really great endgame series on youtube. Just some ideas.
HeckinSprout wrote:
How to study? Or how to know what to study? I'm confused.
There are lots of ways to study chess. You can use your own games, set them up on a board and go through the moves. Or use an engine on them, turn off "show best move" and when it says you made a mistake, think it through and try a different move and see if the engine approves or not. There's plenty of chess books you can buy and read. You can watch chess improvement videos on youtube or review games from master players and create lichess.org interactive studies from them.
As for what to study. Identify areas in your game where you think you need work. Are you weak in openings, middlegames, or endgames? If you do a game review, it will tell you your accuracy at each phase of the game. If you are weak at openings, there are basic lessons on chess.com to get you started, and if you find an opening you like, look for a chess book or youtube videos from titled players going over it and memorize the lines and the theory. If you are weak in the middlegame, perhaps study tactics and positional play. Chess puzzles are good for pattern recognition and will eventually help you improve - along with books and youtube. Same deal with end games - the late Daniel Naroditsky has a really great endgame series on youtube. Just some ideas.
now what to do for a 700... I mean 3000 rated Chess makes little to no sense... (I suck at pawn endgames but its a rare thing to happen at 700)
The OP has an online rating of about 1100. In OTB classical, this is the equivalent of about 700 or 800–basically a beginner.
Someone at this level will not be able to gain very much from playing other beginners or from reviewing his games. He simply will not have the opportunity to learn the classic configurations of pieces that appear in serious games nor will he have the vocabulary of concepts to describe or understand such patterns if they occur. We don’t ask first-graders to design their college curricula.
How should a beginner study? Read the classic instruction books. Play through master games that are annotated for beginners. Focus on basic general principles of openings, endings, and middlegames. When playing practice games, focus on applying basic concepts.
Sorry if this sound harsh. But I think it will lead to faster and more effective improvement.
"They" say one of the best things to do is play through old master's games. As in GMs vs GMs or maybe through a whole list of 1970 World Championship games, etc.
Fischer himself believes in and promoted "best by test". Meaning play against better players or those of your equal ranking and if it works repeat it, if it doesn't don't.
You can also memorize opening moves. Someone told me years ago to pick 2-4 openings from each side of the board. When you reach 16-1800 you may want to add more.
Something like that.
mikewier wrote:
The OP has an online rating of about 1100. In OTB classical, this is the equivalent of about 700 or 800–basically a beginner.
Someone at this level will not be able to gain very much from playing other beginners or from reviewing his games. He simply will not have the opportunity to learn the classic configurations of pieces that appear in serious games nor will he have the vocabulary of concepts to describe or understand such patterns if they occur. We don’t ask first-graders to design their college curricula.
How should a beginner study? Read the classic instruction books. Play through master games that are annotated for beginners. Focus on basic general principles of openings, endings, and middlegames. When playing practice games, focus on applying basic concepts.
Sorry if this sound harsh. But I think it will lead to faster and more effective improvement.
AN NM????
Also as a master, you would know not to assume OTB ratings based on an online number.
Like for me, what would you say? 1000 OTB?
No, I'm 1600. Don't judge by numbers.
But the point is true, as a beginner, play a lot of games, when you start to get good, THEN you need to study, which here, is about 1800-2000, and OTB is 1200-1500.
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Do yall have any ideas I’ve been trying to figure this out.